Re: Having spelling mistakes NOT underlined

Jeff Hostetler (jeff@abisource.com)
Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:40:01 -0500


Jacques Du Pasquier wrote:
> Is it possible ?
>
> I write in French, so what I write is not often correct from the
> English point of view, and all these little waves are annoying.
>
> Sorry if this is a FAQ (I guess it must be), but there's not mention
> of it in the actual FAQ, and I didn't find it either in the archive
> for the list (but I couldn't actually search this, so my browsing was
> limited).

yes. there are 2 options:

[1] turn off interactive spell checking:

(with vi or emacs) edit you ~/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.Profile.
change both instances of "_builtin_" to "custom".
set AutoSpellCheck to "0".
save it and launch AbiWord.

[2] try getting a french dictionary. (i've not tried this,
but it "ought" to work.) we use ispell internally, so if you
have a french ispell dictionary [try `locate "*.hash"` or
`locate ispell`], edit your AbiWord profile to use it instead
of our american one. again, change "_builtin_" to "custom"
and then change SpellCheckWordList to "french.hash". and put
a copy of this file in the AbiSuite dictionary directory (or
change SpellCheckDirectory to "/usr/ispell/..." or whatever).

i'll have a preferences dialog available shortly, so in the
future, you won't have to do all of this the hard way....

hope this helps,
jeff

PS. the following link has notes on getting the UI locale to work:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-user/99/September/0048.html



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